Nganning
English
editProper noun
editNganning
- Dated form of Anning.
- 1875, The Book of Ser Marco Polo[1], London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 57:
- This River Nganning waters a valley called Kienchang, containing near its northern end a city known by the same name, but in our modern maps marked as Ningyuen-fu; this last being the name of a department of which it is the capital, and which embraces much more than the valley of Kienchang.
- 1912, “The Monthly Record”, in The Geographical Journal[2], volume XXIX, London: Royal Geographical Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 73:
- M. Dessirier explored the important range lying between the valley of the Nganning on the west and that of the Puke, traversed by M. Bonin, on the east.[...]At the end of March Dr. Legendre and M. Noiret explored the porphyritic range which runs from north to south between the valleys of the Tung-ho and Yangtse separating the valley of the Nganning from the basin of Yuesi.